February 22, February 28 (new moon), March 14 (full moon), March 22, 2025 at
Best Before, Vienna, AT
Dear Jennifer and Hiroshi,
Like a sconce, the moon reflects light rather than emitting its own.
Eclipse of the Moon I (2023) holds an image of the night sky illuminated by moonlight seen from a plane, the closest to a full moon I have ever been.
A friend once shared that emotions feel stronger at high altitudes, which is why films and music you experience in-flight might move you more than on land. In that moment, seeing light at such a height, also moved me in a particular way.
Best wishes,
Pam
January 18—February 15, 2025
Everything is bright, then there is the moon I, II, III (2025) are part of
Pillows (duo exhibition with James Prapaithong) at Project Native Informant hosting Nova Contemporary for Condo, London, UK
The exhibition’s title draws from the concept of "pillow words" in Japanese waka poetry, literary devices used to shape musicality and atmosphere. This tactic is also where Yasujirō Ozu, whom both artists have referenced, roots his cinematic "pillow shots”, in which he employs stillness to amplify the frequencies of latent feelings and unexpressed desires. Depicting scenes from tender, focused observation, Virada and Prapaithong’s works articulate the poetic resonances within the marginal and the elliptical, demonstrating how emptiness can be reclaimed as a mode of authorial agency. [...]
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January 15—February 8, 2025
Early Summer (2024) and
An Autumn Afternoon (2024) are part of
Big Other at Château Shatto, Los Angeles, US
Eighteen months ago, art historian Laura Whitcomb drew the gallery towards the work of Paulina Peavy. Her oil on board paintings (realized in the 1930s) and her so-called ‘smokies’ (realized in the 1970s) were immediate points of interest and catalyzed an exhibition that was scheduled to open on Saturday, January 11, at Château Shatto in Los Angeles. Holding a flame up to paper, Peavy would capture an impression of the wick-bound fire with residual curls of smoke. Peavy’s ‘smokies’ capture something essential to how art performs and suspends itself. They also capture something more essential to the fugitive nature of time and matter; what constitutes an impression, how and for how long does it stay impressed. Beguiled by the works themselves and this existential module of sorts, we started building a gallery exhibition around artworks that use smoke as subject or material. [...]
November 14—December 21, 2024
Silvering the Sky at
47 Canal, New York, US
A girl once mentioned to me the process of 'cloud seeding', where silver particles are dispersed into the clouds to clear the sky. Interestingly, she referred to it instead as 'cloud silvering’, perhaps a poetic mistranslation? I couldn't help but wonder—was that even possible? The process sounded enchanting. She described how this technique was used to manipulate the weather to ensure that important days of her nation would always be sunny. She recalled those days of her childhood, as it was always a holiday, she would return to visit her grandparents in the countryside. In hindsight, those memories are always bathed in sunlight.
To manipulate the weather to guarantee everyone a sunny day, and in turn shaping their memories, stirred something deep within me. The condition created by this ‘cloud silvering’ produced a fertile ground for a fictional mirage of time and place, somewhere I cannot land. It brought to my mind what Moyra Davey wrote about nostalgia, how she remembers her mother on a sunny day, fragmented with a scene from Antonioni’s film:
“But I can’t say more than that. To do so would be to kill off the memory and all the generative power it holds in my imagination.”
September 13, 2024—February 9, 2025
The room i entered was a dream of this room (2024) is part of
Diffractions—Transforming at Kunst Raum Mitte, Berlin, DE.
Dust from the attic collected and encased in glass orbs, rolled across a shiny-satin table. Like a ghostly veil, the round table displays the star chart that merges the opening dates of the former Gallery White Elephant and Kunst Raum Mitte—two art spaces that share the same location, but exists in different times. Looking into the stars, the work addresses their current, past, and future identities through a birth chart reading.
Ceremony: August in the Water at Gibraltarstraat 74B, August 29, 2024, 19:00
Two meteorites hit the Earth simultaneously, in two places closely located. The moon and Uranus represent water, which indicates she is...
Thank you for joining our screening of August in the Water『水の中の八月』(1995), a film by Gakuryū Ishii, formerly known as Sogo Ishii, in the last week of Summer. The screening was followed by a stone ritual by the Pierenbadje Gibraltarbad. You can listen to the ritual
here. We look forward to seeing you again in our future gatherings. Until then, let’s keep in touch.
Ceremony (place, date, time) is a platform formed by Pam Virada, Natasha Linde Krebs, and Ilya Lindhout, facilitating shared spaces for collective imagination and reimagination in cinema.
June 10—16, 2024
Solo presentation with Nova Contemporary at Liste Art Basel, CH
Three interconnected series that explore various mediums along the lines of seasons, familial repetitions, and phantasmagoria.
The works can be viewed here:
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April 21, 2024
Flower Affogato for
Movie marathon: Chainsaw Man Calling Party by
Theetat Thunkijjanukij at Filmtheater Kriterion, Amsterdam, NL
"He expected an ice cream, but she took him to the movie marathon"
This is the line that inspired the upcoming six film movie marathon Chainsaw Man Calling Party, curated by Theetat Thunkijjanukij. The marathon brings to life a scene from the epynomous manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, in which its two main characters go on a movie marathon date. Much like the manga's writer translates scenarios from western/horror films into his mangas, this marathon translates a scenario from his mangas into the "real-world".
The marathon lasts from noon to midnight, and will be accompanied by an opportunity to buy Chainsaw Man merch, and to taste a Flower Affogato by Pam Virada.
March 7—23, 2024
Descendant (spine x) (2024) is part of
Housewarming: Activations for a new location at de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Resembling a sun-catcher, the work mirrors and responds to the available light sources within the space, including sunlight and the projector’s light intertwining them to form constellations. This process incorporates remnants and ruins of history, resulting in a tapestry of multiplied temporalities and fractured zones.